Among all of the original leaders of the Iranian Revolution of 1979, there are few who have been more influential than Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Bahramani, universally known as Akbar Hashemi ...
Forty years ago Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Shiite cleric who led Iran's unfolding Islamic revolution, was welcomed back to Tehran by a jubilant throng after more than 14 years in exile. This ...
NEAUPHLE-LE-CHATEAU, France – From a sleepy village outside Paris, the man who would become the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran sat cross-legged beneath an apple tree, delivering ...
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Death to Ayatollah: Iran's global power delusion

In November 1979, as they seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took American diplomats hostage, Shia Islamic thugs loyal to the Ayatollah Khomeini screamed, "Death to America!" Seizing an embassy is ...
When I was a boy, my birthday was the subject of a long-running joke in our family. I was born in Tehran on Feb. 1, 1985—exactly six years to the day that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from his ...
Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khomeini and his media-savvy allies duped Western journalists and intellectuals into supporting his rise to theocratic tyranny, according to a new history. “He had manipulated ...
Türkiye’s National Intelligence Organization on Wednesday made public a previously classified document from Nov. 11, 1964, ...
NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - On a backstreet in Iraq's holy city of Najaf, Iranian pilgrims shuffle in and out of a small doorway, making a short but important detour. They have come to see where the ...
His father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had turned what was traditionally a religious affairs office into a shadowy national security juggernaut. By Neil MacFarquhar Mojtaba Khamenei takes on a role that ...